BluePoint / DIAMANT Conference & Business Centre, Auguste Reyerslaan 80, Brussels

9:15 – 9:45

Welcome coffee & exhibition

9:45 – 10:00

Welcome and opening

Carsten Schmidt, Director of the e-SENS Project, the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-

Westphalia, Germany

10:00 – 11:00

Keynote speeches & discussion on Public Services in the digital age

Maximilian Strotmann, Member of the Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip, European

Commission

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Posch, Federal CIO of Austria

David Hixon, IBM Advanced Communications Technical Lead, IBM United States

Khuzairi Yahaya, DCEO, Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM)

11:00 – 12:00

The Digital Service Infrastructure – the digital EU advantage

Making Life of Europeans easier – the ultimate goal

Karen Ghysels, Director of the European Consumer Centre, Belgium

Technological enablers of modern administration

Xander van der Linde, Senior advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands

Business Perspective on digital service infrastructure

John Murray, Founder of Enterprise Registry Solutions, Ireland

World-wide reusability of the EU infrastructure

Carsten Schmidt, Director of the e-SENS Project, the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-

Westphalia, Germany

Interoperability challenges in Australia

Levine Naidoo, Executive consultant, Australian Taxation Office

12:00 – 13:00

Towards secure digital communication

eIDAS – why it is important?

Jaana Sahk, Counsellor for Information Society, Permanent Representation of Estonia to

the EU, Estonia

Using technologies to improve security and trust in public administration

Jens Bender, Head of Unit “eID-Technologies and Smartcards” Federal Office for

Information Security, Germany

Real Experience on achieving eIDAS compliance

Hans van der Burght, Program Manager of Cross-Border eID Projects, Ministry of

Economic Affairs, the Netherlands

Are you ready for eIDAS?

Alice Vasilescu, IT Project Officer, eIDAS team, European Commission

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

1st day

Conference programme

Thursday, 02/03/2017

BluePoint / DIAMANT Conference & Business Centre, Auguste Reyerslaan 80, Brussels

14:00 – 15:30

Success stories for connecting Europe

Introduction on the e-SENS success stories

Lefteris Leontaridis, e-SENS WP5 Manager, Greece

Presentations of success cases from various policy domains: e-Procurement, e-Justice, e-

Health, Citizen Lifecycle by pilot representatives:

Kornelis Drijfhout, Public Procurement Expertise Centre, the Netherlands

Jean-Marc Pellet, Ministry of Justice, France

George Pangalos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece

Gunnar Wettergren, eGovlab, Stockholm University, Sweden

Panel discussion (Marc-Christopher Schmidt, PWC/Everis, external consultant to DG

DIGIT; Licínio Kustra Mano, Intrasoft, External Consultant to DG SANTE; Alain Roset, LA

POSTE France; Herbert Leitold, A-SIT Austria)

15:30 – 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 – 17:20

Sustaining the transformation – what is the plan for the future?

Long-term management of the digital service infrastructure

Krum Garkov, Executive Director, eu-LISA

e-Justice high-level sustainability perspective

Marc Jorna, Head of Unit, DG Justice, European Commission

Connecting Europe Facility 2014-2020: Long-Term Sustainability of Digital Service

Infrastructures

Patrick Wauters, Director at Deloitte Consulting, Belgium

Sustainability experiences of eProcurement domain

Anna-Lis Berg, Deputy Secretary General of OpenPEPPOL, Difi, Denmark

e-SENS position on the IT governance and plans for ensuring sustainability

Freek van Krevel, e-SENS WP3 Manager, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands

Panel discussion (Anna-Lis Berg, OpenPEPPOL; Marc Jorna, DG Justice; Patrick Wauters,

Deloitte Consulting)

17:20 – 18:00 Exhibition

e-SENS, CEF & INEA, e-CODEX, TOOP, OpenPEPPOL, ELRC, eGovernment & Trust

19:30 Social event at La Fabbrica

1st day

Conference programme

Thursday, 02/03/2017

BluePoint / DIAMANT Conference & Business Centre, Auguste Reyerslaan 80, Brussels

9:30 – 9:45

Welcome coffee & exhibition

9:45 – 10:10

Keynote speech ‘From pilots to Reality’

Andrea Servida, Head of the Unit "eGovernment and Trust", DG CONNECT, European

Commission

10:10 – 11:20

Building Digital Ecosystems – the CEF Building Blocks

Panel discussion:

Gérard Soisson, Head of Unit for the EU & International Affairs, Government IT

Centre of Luxembourg

Niels Pagh-Rasmussen, Executive Architect IBM Denmark

Andrea Servida, Head of the Unit "eGovernment and Trust", DG CNECT,

European Commission

Natalie C. Nickel, EU Projects Coordinator and Administrator, the Ministry of

Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

11:20 – 11:35

e-SENS contribution to achieving interoperability in cross-border interactions

Christian Vindinge Rasmussen, e-SENS WP6 Manager, Technological Institute, Denmark

11:35 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:20

Building Digital Ecosystems – the CEF Building Blocks

Session organized by CEF Digital with Building Block experts

Joao Rodrigues Frade (eDelivery)

Alice Vasilescu (eID)

Irena Riviere-Osipov (eInvoicing)

Michael DeBoer (eSignature)

Aleksandra Wesołowska (eTranslation)

Kara Baptista (INEA)

Benoit Abeloos (EU catalogue of ICT standards for public procurement: Join the

public consultation)

13:20 – 13:40

Federated Architecture for realisation of the “Once Only” Principle

Robert Krimmer, TOOP Project Director, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

13:40 – 14:00

Event closing

Carsten Schmidt, Director of the e-SENS Project, the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-

Westphalia, Germany

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch & Exhibition

2nd day

Conference programme

Friday, 03/03/2017